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St. Paul Physician Named President of Minnesota Medical Association

September 22, 2023

Laurel Ries, MD, of Roseville, was installed as the Minnesota Medical Association’s (MMA) 157th president on September 21 during the association’s Empowering Physicians Conference.  

Ries, a family medicine physician in St. Paul, has been very active with the MMA since she became a member in 2005.   

She has served on the MMA’s Ethics & Medical-Legal Affairs committee, as well as acting as chair of its Public Health committee.  She also took part in work for the Health Department’s Blood Lead Screening Guidelines for Pregnant and Breast-Feeding Women.  Plus, she served on the MMA’s Executive Committee, Policy Council, Board of Trustees, Nominating Committee, Awards Committee and as an alternate AMA delegate.

Her term, which officially begins October 1, lasts one year.  

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